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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle George Stewart MackenzieTravels in the Island of Iceland during the summer...Print: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Georges Cuvier'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les osse...Print: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Gotthold Ephraim LessingL'Education du genre humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Henri de Saint-SimoneNouveau ChristianismePrint: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Henri de Saint-SimoneL'Industrie, ou discussions politiques, morales et...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Henry Home, Lord KamesEssays on the Principles of Morality and Natural R...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyage dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same auth...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle Hugh BlairLectures on RhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen...Thomas Carlyle Immanuel KantThe Critique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophi? Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ...Thomas Carlyle Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de SadeMemoires pour la vie de Francois PetrarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle James BeattieThe MinstrelPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle James BeresfordMiseries of Human LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, ...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 29th JanuaryManuscript: Letter


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